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Actors: Trevor Howard, Leo Genn, Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Rosamund John, Judy Campbell, Megs Jenkins
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Green for Danger |
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The setting is a small hospital in the British countryside in July 1944. As the German V-1 are regularly falling down and exploding all around the hospital, a stressed out medical crew is operating day and night. Joseph Higgins, the local postman, has just been brought in and sent into the operating room. He will die, without any good reason, while being anesthetized. The same night, one of the nurses who was present when Higgins died, Nurse Bates, tells everyone that she knows that Higgins was murdered and that she can proove it. Later, Nurse Bates is killed in the operating room as she was trying to recover the proof she mentioned.
Scotland Yard inspector Cockrill arrives and starts to investigates about those murders. There are five suspects, Doctor Eden, a womanizer, Dr. Barnes, the anesthesiologist, and three nurses, Linley, Sanson and Woods. Nurse Linley is hesitating to break up with Barnes while Eden is trying to seduce her. Two days later, someone tries to gas Nurse Linley after she has told to the other suspects that she intends to tell inspector Cockrill something important about the night of Higgins's death. Although Linley is already recovering in another room, Cockrill lies to the medical staff and anoounces to them that their colleague is suffering from a skull fracture that needs an immediate operation. Inspector Cockrill is sure he will find out who's the murderer during the moments preceding the operation. Produced, co-written and directed by Sidney Gilliat in 1946.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Green for Danger |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 70%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Difficult, but some clues given
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 80%
Murders of set profession?
- doctors
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- doctor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 3 (some)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
Check here if B&W
Yes
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- None
Is this movie based on a
- book
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